E8450

Linksys

E8450

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TP Link Archer C5/C7/A5/A7 were the go to recommendations for OpenWRT compatible routers. Now that they're no longer sold, what are the go to recommendations these days at similar budgets?

As of today: BananaPi BPI-R3 Mini - Amazon - currently $90 $110 GL.iNET Beryl AX - Amazon - currently $74 $87 (monthly sales below $75) Zyxel NWA50AX Pro - Amazon - currently $85 Cudy WR3000S - Amazon - currently $60 Cudy WR3000 - Amazon - $50 - beware - only 16MB flash Netgear WAX206 and Linksys E8

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prajaybasu in r/openwrt

July 10, 2025 7:44 PM

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Router recommendation that meets these criteria

The hardware might be a tad underpowered (but also might not) however the available features are impressive for an amazing price point imo. Very happy with the “Linksys E8450 (UBI)” if you can still get them (my 2 cents)

asmithatx in r/openwrt

June 20, 2025 8:40 AM

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We Made a Simple LuCI App for OpenWRT to Easily Set Up a Batman-adv Mesh WiFi Network

You can use both wired and wireless backhaul with Batman-adv, and one of the wired routers on your switch should handle DHCP and act as the WiFi mesh server. That way, if your switch fails, the mesh can still function as a large "WiFi switch," ensuring connectivity. Batman-adv dynamically manages ba

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TorGuardVPN in r/openwrt

February 24, 2025 6:46 AM

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[Help] Affordable Router That Supports OpenWRT – Exhausted by Failed Orders

Familiar-Newspaper23 in r/openwrt

July 20, 2025 1:23 PM

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router under $200

Currently using a Linksys E8450 without issues. Goes for around $100. Throughput is good, even when you enabling permanent VPN (proton vpn) with close to getting full ISP speed (-700Mb/s). Only downside is that there is not a ton of space available for additional modules, but it has enough for my ne

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gerdude1 in r/openwrt

August 25, 2025 12:07 AM

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Updating from 22.03 to 24.10 on Linksys E8450. How? Please help

There was a change in the flash layout, so the old UBI version needed to be upgraded to the new UBI version, which is done by the installer as described in the wiki and github. There might be some chance to get it working following these instructions: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/belkin-rt3200-linksy

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orev in r/openwrt

November 17, 2025 4:44 AM

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WAX206 WiFi6 160MHz low speed / birtate

I use wax206 openwrt as my main AP. It drops to 2x2 at 160 and beamsteering dies. Keep it in 80Mhz for best performance. Works much better longer distances on 80 because it’s 4x4. Also true for Belkin Rt3200 and linksys E8450. Keep em 80MHz

Alternative_Will3875 in r/openwrt

January 16, 2025 3:31 PM

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Routers that are very well supported by OpenWrt?

I use belkin rt3200 which is also linksys e8450/ax3200/arena 6 and they’ve never let me down. I have three here at my house, another two at my bosses house, one for my mothers and am putting two more in a family friends house shortly. They handle up to about 20 devices at 2.4g and another 5 at 5g be

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Familiar-Newspaper23 in r/openwrt

July 27, 2025 5:16 PM

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Bricked my router, no lights no nothing, any advice?

Having to force the flash is usually a signal to stop because that should typically never be needed. Hopefully you backed up the factory (mtd2) like I said in your last post. Without connecting to the console, you may be able to recover it using TFTP. You can try connecting to it via Ethernet, start

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orev in r/openwrt

September 28, 2025 9:00 PM

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Dump AP with wireguard

First, it's dumb AP (as in, "not smart"). :) Second, half-way through the question, you correctly change it. You're no longer asking about an AP; instead, you're asking about a full-blown wireless router. You need routing capacity to direct data from Wi-Fi to the VPN tunnel and back. Finally, if you

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NC1HM in r/openwrt

October 3, 2025 3:09 PM

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